Water Treatment Process Technician

Water Treatment Process Technician

Full time 38 hours per week

Salary up to £36,990 (depending on experience)

Location – Chigwell WTW

About the role

We now have an opportunity for a Treatment Works Controller (That's what we call it internally) to join the team who operate & maintain Water Treatment assets across our South Essex Water Supply area.

Working as part of a team, you will be responsible for operating and controlling key Water Treatment assets at Chigwell Water Treatment Works and other sites within the area. Within this role you will conduct tasks in all conditions to ensure these process assets operate correctly and efficiently, undertaking fault investigations and taking appropriate critical actions when issues are found.

You will need to have good IT skills and be able to analyse and interpret various pieces of information to identify process issues and optimise the assets’ performance. Being able to apply your experience and knowledge to work logically through any challenge in a calm and methodical way is key to success in this role.

You’ll carry out routine water quality analysis, adjust Treatment Processes, monitor, and control flow rates, undertake plant checks, front line maintenance tasks, validation checks on various types of instrumentation and complete both paper and electronic records.

As part of this role, you will participate in out of hours standby rota requiring you to be available on a call-out basis to attend the site to resolve urgent issues overnight and at weekends.

Full training will be provided to undertake the various technical aspects of this role.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

About you

Our Treatment Works Controllers play a key role in maintaining the quality and quantity of water through our treatment sites and processes; therefore, we are looking for people who have a strong focus on quality and are comfortable with the analysis and interpretation of data. We are looking for strong problem solvers with logical minds and the determination and focus to find the solution to any challenge.

We need people who are happy to undertake a variety of tasks in all conditions and enjoy working outside, as well as inside, providing a 24/7 service to our customers - whatever the weather!

If you have a full driving licence and experience of working in a technical environment and would like a role that will engage you physically and mentally, in a great company, we want to hear from you.

Here at Essex & Suffolk Water, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.